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Italy

High income Capital: Rome 110 regions
35%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 8.4M people.
MODEL29th of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
8.4M
of 24.1M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
7.5%
1.8M people
People in workILO
24.1M
42% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
6.4%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
20.6%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$43,309
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
89%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.62
36th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
58.9M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
76%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
14%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
70%

Women and men

MODEL

Based on the real occupation mix of women’s and men’s jobs (ILO).

Women: any exposure 44%
Men: any exposure 28%
Women: highest exposure 10.5%
Men: highest exposure 5.3%

Women are +15.2 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Italy 35%
High income 35%
Europe & Central Asia 32%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
ItalyHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.17
Human capital & labour policy 0.14
Innovation & integration 0.16
Regulation & ethics 0.16

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.62 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Italy is highlighted. The other dots are all countries with both measures.

Sources: ILO modelled estimates 2025 · World Bank WDI · IMF AIPI · Anthropic Economic Index · Wikidata · Natural Earth. How the estimates are made.

Regions of Italy